Wikidata:Requests for comment/Q189053
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- Technical issue, RFC not needed. RfC's don't decide about the development agenda of WMDE. If you want to request a new technical feature it makes more sense to write a phabricator ticket and/or wait till it's community wishlist season. ChristianKl (✉) 19:22, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Commands have options/arguments. For example, almost all commands have an argument like -h or --help to get details of the respective command. Is it relevant to wikidata to incorporate such information. From user's perspective, it is very interesting to get complete details of a command from a wikidata page. E.g. ls command.
- Could you given a complete example of an instance of command-line interface (Q189053) with all of its arguments/option to be documented? -- JakobVoss (talk) 13:40, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- Possibly related are fields of instances of form (Q1335296), e.g. Form I-140 (Q23091801) asks for given name, surname, tax ID etc. -- JakobVoss (talk) 13:40, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- Hi JakobVoss, your example is similar to what I have been looking for. In the following examples, ls is a command
$ ls dirname
displays the contents of a directory (with name 'dirname' as argument)
$ ls -R dirname
displays the contents of a directory recursively (directories within directory etc.). Here -R is an option.
There are 2 options (propositions):
- make use of has part(s) (P527) to specify that commands have arguments and options
- propose 2 new properties: has argument and has option for command line tools
P.S. Sorry for the long delay in reply. Jsamwrites (talk) 08:47, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jsamwrites! I found the following items
- parameter (Q1410440): in computer programming, special kind of variable that holds data that was passed as an argument to a subroutine (with many Wikipedia links)
- option (Q28827890): option of a graphical user interface or command line (no Wikipedia links, created by you)
- option argument (Q28827897): arguments to an option of a graphical user interface or a command (no Wikipedia links, created by you)
- command-line option (Q28827893): special token given to a program on the command line to alter its behavior (no Wikipedia links, created by you)
- command-line option (Q28827911): special token given to a program on the command line to alter its behavior (no Wikipedia links, created by you)
Some of these should better be merged. I think parameter (Q1410440) is the general term that also submsumes en:Command-line_interface#Arguments such as positional arguments and options. The latter are also known as "flags" or "switches". Three or even two items are enough:
- parameter in general: parameter (Q1410440)
- program option/switch/flag: ?
- maybe parameter that is no option/switch/flag, but Q1410440 might be enough
-- JakobVoss (talk) 12:56, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks JakobVoss for the reply. I have merged command-line option (Q28827911): special token given to a program on the command line to alter its behavior and command-line option (Q28827893): special token given to a program on the command line to alter its behavior. Jsamwrites (talk) 17:25, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Comment I am getting rid of the second RfC as I think it is an error. PokestarFan • Drink some tea and talk with me • Stalk my edits • I'm not shouting, I just like this font! 02:18, 4 June 2017 (UTC)